Film · Drama, Romance, Music
Porgy and Bess (1959)
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
- Director
- Otto Preminger
- Writers
- Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- June 24, 1959
Cast
Sidney PoitierPorgy
Dorothy DandridgeBess
Sammy Davis Jr.Sportin' Life
Pearl BaileyMaria
Brock PetersCrowne
Diahann CarrollClara
Leslie ScottJake
Ruth AttawaySerena Robbins
Claude AkinsDetective
Clarence MusePeter- Everdinne WilsonAnnie
Ivan DixonJim
Scatman CrothersCrabman
Maya AngelouDancer
Nichelle NicholsDancer
